
Jewish Experiences across the Americas
Local Histories through Global Lenses
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Jewish Experiences across the Americas
Local Histories through Global Lenses
About this book
Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume
This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.
The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies.
Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America.
Contributors: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio |
Elisa Kriza | Raanan Rein | Adriana M. Brodsky | Lucas de Mattos Moura
Fernandes | Katalin Franciska Rac | Zachary M Baker | Neil Weijer | Hilit
Surowitz-Israel | Isabel Rosa Gritti | Tamar Herzog | Jose C Moya | Sandra
McGee Deutsch | Dana Rabin
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Transliteration
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Imperial Intersections
- Part II. Network Empires
- Part III. Perceptions of Migrants and Migration
- Part IV. Global Struggles and Community Organizing
- List of Contributors
- Index